Author Mark Gerson, whose new book is "God Was Right," reveals the important blessing of grandparenthood from the Bible and ...

Growing up in Palo Alto, California, food writer and author Adeena Sussman recalls waking up to the smell of her mother's dishes cooking on the stove in preparation for Shabbat. The weekly Jewish ...

The bestselling author of more than a dozen cookbooks, Sussman has a new recipe collection out called Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours. It features 130 diverse recipes from ...

he said, speaking of the blessing on the wine that is offered at the beginning of Shabbat dinner. “Rituals are one of the most powerful parts of culture because humanity never invented a better ...

“Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours” (Avery) dives into the foods served during the Sabbath, the weekly day of rest marked by many Jews, whether with a Friday night dinner ...

One Shabbat this past winter ... resulting in further alienating some Jews from the traditions and rituals practiced by more observant Jews. It is telling that the most recent Pew Study ...

The Young People’s League of the United Synagogue of America concluded its 26th annual national convention here with the adoption of resolutions calling for intensification of Sabbath ...

My Sabbath jolted me out of a daze. For millennia, religions have regarded this ritual rest as a spiritual necessity. Yet clergy are now arguing that this practice, whether in a secular or ...

Another approach to kedushah comes to mind when evaluating the dietary laws together with other major Jewish ritual observances – in particular, the Sabbath and the laws of family purity.

Following this boundary-pushing ceremony with his own personal Tashlich, or Ritual of Atonement ... Jews — only becomes fully clear well into “Sabbath Queen.” Jumping back and forth in ...